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Bert Andrews collection

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Bert Andrews collection [graphic].

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[195-]-[198-]

Author

Andrews, Bert.

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Description

315 items (1.2 lin. ft., 5 boxes); 36 x 28 cm. and smaller.

Summary

The Bert Andrews Collection documents the Black Theater Movement in New York City from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Donor/Sponsor

Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.

Alternative title

Abercrombie apocalypse.
Ain't suppose to die a natural death.
Akokowe.
Amen corner.
American dreams.
Ana Lucasta.
About heaven and earth.
Ballet behind the bridge.
Behold! cometh the Vanderkellans.
Bessie and me.
Bessie Smith empress of the blues.
Big city blues.
Big time Buck White.
Black body blues.
Black girl.
The Blacks.
Boogie woogie landscape.
The breaking.
Breeze of summer.
Brotherhood.
The Brownsville raid.
Carry me back to Morningside Heights.
Ceremonies in dark old men.
Champeen.
Colored people's time.
The connection.
The contract.
Contributions.
Coriolanus.
Cotillion.
Daddy goodness.
Dark of the moon.
Dance and the railroad.
Daughters of the mock.
Day of absence.
District line.
The dream on Monkey Mountain.
Eden.
An evening with Josephine Baker.
The First breeze of summer.
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.
The forever clause.
Go start the rainbow.
God is a (Guess what?)
God's trombones.
The Great MacDaddy.
A hand is on the gate.
Happy ending.
The harangues.
Home.
Hooch.
Hospice.
Ice game.
In an upstate motel.
In the deepest part of sleep.
Inacent black and the five brothers.
Incarnations of Reverend Goode Blacque Dresse.
Investments.
Jesse and the games: "Jesse Owens, Olympiad."
La Crime del Diablo.
Linty Lucy.
Livin' fat.
Long day's journey into night.
Macbeth.
Malcochon.
Man better man.
Me and Bessie.
Manhattan made me.
The Michigan.
Morningside Heights.
The murder of Cyrene Vignette.
Nevis Mountain Dew.
No left turn.
Ododo.
The ofay watcher.
The offering.
Old phantom.
One mo' time.
Papa Bee on the D train.
Partake de goat meat.
Perry's mission.
Plays from Africa: Everyman.
A puppet play.
A raisin in the sun.
The reckoning.
Ride a black horse.
The River Niger.
Rosalie Pritchett.
The royal road.
A season to unravel.
The sixteenth round.
Sisyphus and the blue-eyed cyclops.
Slave ship.
A soldier's play.
Something lost.
Song of the Lusitanian bogey.
Sons and fathers of sons.
The square root of soul.
String.
The sty of the blind pig.
Summer of the seventeenth doll.
Suspenders.
The taking of Miss Janie.
Toe jam.
To be young, gifted and black.
The toilet.
Trumpets of the Lord.
Tu-ankh-amen the boy king.
Twilight dinner.
Weep not for me.
What ever happened to Amos 'n Andy?
What the wine sellers buy.
Waiting for Mongo.
When the chickens come home to roost.
Zooman and the sign.
Zora.

Subject

Genre/Form

Publicity photographs – 1950-1999.
Portrait photographs – 1950-1999.
Group portraits – 1950-1999.
Gelatin silver prints – 1950-1999.
Contact sheets – 1950-1999.

Call number

Sc Photo Bert Andrews Collection

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Many photographs bear photographer's printed address label or handstamp on verso; some contact sheets have photographer's name and address printed in the negative on recto. Photographic prints, most of which are of exhibition quality, have notations on verso. Most contact sheets have accompanying identifying worksheets. Some contact sheets are cut and stapled on paper.
The contact sheets, which comprise most of the collection, are organized by theater company and arranged alphabetically by title of production within each company (with the exception of the New Federal Theater which, in a few instances, two productions are reproduced on one contact sheet).

Terms of use (note)

Restricted: Permission of copyright holder is required for duplication; photocopying of originals is prohibited.

Biography (note)

Photographer Bert Andrews documented the modern Black Theater Movement in New York City and was the official photographer for the Negro Ensemble Company for over 35 years, beginning in the 1950s.

Publications (note)

In the shadow of the Great White Way : images from the Black Theatre / Bert Andrews. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, l989.

Author

Andrews, Bert.

Title

Bert Andrews collection [graphic].

Imprint

[195-]-[198-]

Terms of use

Restricted: Permission of copyright holder is required for duplication; photocopying of originals is prohibited.

Biography

Photographer Bert Andrews documented the modern Black Theater Movement in New York City and was the official photographer for the Negro Ensemble Company for over 35 years, beginning in the 1950s. Born in Chicago on March 21, l929, and raised in Harlem, Andrews was originally a songwriter, singer and dancer. He began studying photography while in the U.S. Army in the 1950s and later was an apprentice to Chuck Stewart, one of the foremost jazz photographers.
During his career, Andrews photographed over 1,000 theatrical productions including those of the Negro Ensemble Company, the New Federal Theater, the Frank Silvera Writers Workshop, and the Richard Allen Cultural Center. Among the productions he documented are "Bubbling Brown Sugar," "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," "Eubie," "For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf," "A Raisin in the Sun," and "A Soldier's Play." His photographs have appeared in theater anthologies and several national and international publications including Time, Life, and The New York Times. Andrews' work was collected in the book, "In the Shadow of the Great White Way: Images from the Black Theatre" (1989). Andrews died on January 25, l993, in New York City.
In 1985, a fire in Andrews' studio destroyed over 100,000 prints and negatives representing his life's work. For the next three years, Andrews reconstructed part of his collection from prints and negatives in the possession of the artists and theatrical companies he photographed. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is believed to hold the largest collection of Andrews' work in a public repository.

Publications

In the shadow of the Great White Way : images from the Black Theatre / Bert Andrews. New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, l989.

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Black arts movement.

Added title

Abercrombie apocalypse.
Ain't suppose to die a natural death.
Akokowe.
Amen corner.
American dreams.
Ana Lucasta.
About heaven and earth.
Ballet behind the bridge.
Behold! cometh the Vanderkellans.
Bessie and me.
Bessie Smith empress of the blues.
Big city blues.
Big time Buck White.
Black body blues.
Black girl.
The Blacks.
Boogie woogie landscape.
The breaking.
Breeze of summer.
Brotherhood.
The Brownsville raid.
Carry me back to Morningside Heights.
Ceremonies in dark old men.
Champeen.
Colored people's time.
The connection.
The contract.
Contributions.
Coriolanus.
Cotillion.
Daddy goodness.
Dark of the moon.
Dance and the railroad.
Daughters of the mock.
Day of absence.
District line.
The dream on Monkey Mountain.
Eden.
An evening with Josephine Baker.
The First breeze of summer.
For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.
The forever clause.
Go start the rainbow.
God is a (Guess what?)
God's trombones.
The Great MacDaddy.
A hand is on the gate.
Happy ending.
The harangues.
Home.
Hooch.
Hospice.
Ice game.
In an upstate motel.
In the deepest part of sleep.
Inacent black and the five brothers.
Incarnations of Reverend Goode Blacque Dresse.
Investments.
Jesse and the games: "Jesse Owens, Olympiad."
La Crime del Diablo.
Linty Lucy.
Livin' fat.
Long day's journey into night.
Macbeth.
Malcochon.
Man better man.
Me and Bessie.
Manhattan made me.
The Michigan.
Morningside Heights.
The murder of Cyrene Vignette.
Nevis Mountain Dew.
No left turn.
Ododo.
The ofay watcher.
The offering.
Old phantom.
One mo' time.
Papa Bee on the D train.
Partake de goat meat.
Perry's mission.
Plays from Africa: Everyman.
A puppet play.
A raisin in the sun.
The reckoning.
Ride a black horse.
The River Niger.
Rosalie Pritchett.
The royal road.
A season to unravel.
The sixteenth round.
Sisyphus and the blue-eyed cyclops.
Slave ship.
A soldier's play.
Something lost.
Song of the Lusitanian bogey.
Sons and fathers of sons.
The square root of soul.
String.
The sty of the blind pig.
Summer of the seventeenth doll.
Suspenders.
The taking of Miss Janie.
Toe jam.
To be young, gifted and black.
The toilet.
Trumpets of the Lord.
Tu-ankh-amen the boy king.
Twilight dinner.
Weep not for me.
What ever happened to Amos 'n Andy?
What the wine sellers buy.
Waiting for Mongo.
When the chickens come home to roost.
Zooman and the sign.
Zora.

Research call number

Sc Photo Bert Andrews Collection

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